(Córdoba, 1966)
Alejandro Blanco, (Lic., Sociology, Universidad de Buenos Aires; M.A., Sociology of Culture, Universidad Nacional de General San Martín; PhD, History, Universidad de Buenos Aires) is currently a professor of Sociology at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and a researcher at CONICET. He is the author of Razón y modernidad. Gino Germani y la sociología en la Argentina (2006); Gino Germani: la renovación intelectual de la sociología, Selección de textos y estudio preliminar and, co-authored with Luiz Jackson, Sociología en el espejo. Ensayistas, científicos sociales y críticos literarios en Brasil y Argentina (2015). In 2010 he received the Houssay Award.
With a research focus on intellectual history and comparative sociology of intellectuals, his work has explored the development of social sciences and literary criticism in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.
Contact: ablanco@unq.edu.ar